Works of Art by Roscoe Hall” Will open at the Birmingham Public Library

Birmingham, Ala. – An exciting new exhibition of Roscoe Hall paintings will open at the Birmingham Public Library on Friday 7th June. The show is titled rekindle and will be on display in the First Floor Gallery in the Central Library until Friday 26 July.

Artist and chef Roscoe Hall, who lives and works in Birmingham, was born in Chicago in 1978. He has worked as a chef for nearly 27 years, using his art “as a vital force to cope with work in some of the most good cuisines in the world. United States.”

In an interesting combination of the culinary and fine art worlds, Hall produces pigments from dried spices and makes her own charcoal from oak and mesquite wood. He even uses kitchen utensils to apply homemade pigments to canvas, wood panels, paper and other textured surfaces.

In the exhibition rekindle, “the repetitive icon of the match is the figurative focus chosen to express the narrative in the series. The match is an icon of the celebration. Various forms of memories of fear, romance and change (are) in the essence of the smell of an exploded match. The book of matches is a figurative accent that will tell the narrative of the progress of the basic principles of sustainability.”

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“The basic principles of sustainability are now emotional challenges in society. All of the original land appears to have been approved for redevelopment for the purpose of location, profit and unfair change. The concept within this body of work is to look at these principles from the ground up. The main research focus is in the cultivated soil of Alabama, Georgia and Illinois. The narrative sought was one of migration and settlement in these states by African Americans/my family tree. The pigments manufactured and used in production for these works come from agriculture in those states.” – Roscoe Hall

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To view Hall’s performance, please stop by the Central Library anytime during regular business hours. It is free and open to the public.

By Margaret Splane|Library Assistant III, Community Involvement and Fundraising